"The easiest way to explain federation is to think about email. Anyone can create their own email address via any provider they choose, and they can use any email software they choose. As the whole system is standards-based, anyone can send an email to anyone else knowing that it will ‘just work’. You only need to know their email address, something like name@emailprovider.com."
If we extend that idea to social networks, so long as a social network adheres to a particular standard, then anyone can send a message or other content to anyone else knowing that it will ‘just work’. In our case with #
MoodleNet, the standard is #
ActivityPub, which is already used by social networks such as #
Mastodon, #
Peertube, and #
Pixelfed.
Source:
https://blog.moodle.net/2019/federation-testing-programme/
